"I want to go down there and take a look."
That thought had lingered in Mo Ling's mind ever since he first gazed into the Abyss.
Five years had now passed since that disaster, yet the turmoil brought by the Abyss had still not subsided.
The waves of change continued to reverberate across the world. The old rules had been completely shattered. In just five years, humanity's social structure had undergone earth-shaking changes. Nations were no longer nations; an organization known as the United Government had replaced the governments of every country and united all humanity.
Such a thing had once been unimaginable, but the appearance of the Abyss had directly brought about this outcome. After humanity's initial contact with the Abyss, they realized just how extraordinary that "hole" was.
"Inside it is another world..."
Humanity's internal conflicts had been transformed into external ones, and the sense of crisis buried deep within human genes drove people to face these changes in a more united manner.
This change was destroying humanity's technological system, destroying humanity's faith and culture, and destroying humanity's normal understanding of the world. That was even more terrifying than the incomprehensible strange phenomena themselves. It was fundamentally altering human concepts, causing humanity's understanding of the world to collapse by the day.
Some pioneers recognized this. Before humanity lost its "humanity," human cognition had to be stabilized first, so that the impact on people's minds would not cause civilization to collapse. They proposed all kinds of concepts to explain the Abyss and the strange powers it brought.
"Abyss, Relics, layers, abilities, costs, Abyss Creatures..." These unfamiliar yet familiar terms were incorporated into humanity's understanding, using rational standardization to explain phenomena beyond everyday life.
Many who could not accept these terms went mad.
Their sanity collapsed, and they lost their